Montana recently passed a strict new medical marijuana law that has replaced their VOTER initiative law that had been on the books since 2004. Now opponents of the new law are well on their way to gathering enough signatures to put the measure before the voters once again in the 2012 general election. The thriving caregiver industry in Montana had created somewhat of a backlash against medical marijuana. Now those in the industry that had been squeezed out of a legal medical cannabis market say that they are ready for a fight with the launch of referendum 124 that seeks to overturn the controversial Senate Bill 423.
Lawmakers in Montana passed Senate bill 423 in the last few days of the Legislative session this year. It replaced the current Montana Medical Marijuana Act with a highly restrictive bill that would effectively lower the number of participants in the program from around 30,000 to about 2,000. Already, the new law is being held up in the courts where a Helena judge temporarily blocked portions of it. District Judge James Reynolds refused to block the entire law, as cannabis activist state-wide were hoping, but he did strike down several major provisions of the law. He blocked the provision that would have forbidden caregivers to charge patients for medical marijuana.mProviders can now continue to charge patients for medical cannabis.
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